Hand-pump.



L'F. ROSE.

HAND PUMP. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2.1918.

1,.293,936. Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

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HAND-PUMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

Application filed January 2, 1918. Serial No. 210,060.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosnPH F. Rose, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cherokee, in the county of Cherokee and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Pumps, of which thefollowing is a'specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in hand pumps, of thepneumatic type, and designed especially for use in connection withpneumatic tires for automobile and other similar wheels.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a pump of thischaracter, that is comparatively inexpensive in cost of production,light and durable, and simple both inconstruction and operation, butwithal eflicient in performing the functions for which it is intended.

The invention essentially consists in certain novel combinations andarrangements of parts in the plunger or reciprocating piston, which isof the rectilinear type and carries its own valve.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example ofthe physical embodiment of my invention constructed according to thebest mode so far devised for the practical application of the principlesof my invention, and which has proven highly satisfactory, in actualuse.

Figure 1 is a View in elevation, partly broken away, of a well knowntype of pump having the features of my invention embodied therein.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged, sectional view of the piston.

Fig. 3 is a plan vew, partly in section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the head of the piston.

In the preferred form of my invention as illustrated in the drawings Ihave depicted the usual cylinder 1 having the pump base or foot piece 2,the outlet 3, handle 4 and stem 5, all of well known or approved type,and the piston, as a whole, is designated by the numeral 6, and designedto reciprocate in the cylinder, in rectilinear direction as usual.

The body of the piston is designed as 7, and is cylindrical in crosssection and formed with air passages 8, and a reduced extension 9 intowhich the stem 5 is threaded, the stem being formed hollow, as

at 10, within the extension 9. Within the body 7 a chamber 11 iscentrally formed, and the open end of the body is enlarged, as 12 toaccommodate the piston head 13 that is threaded into the open end 12 ofthe body, and it will be noted that a chamber or space is formed betweenthe head and body into which the passages 8 open and terminate. Aleather gasket 14 is shown as clamped between the body and head of thepiston to insure air tight frictional contact with the interior walls ofthe cylinder 1 in which the piston reciprocates.

The head 13 of the piston has a central opening, which expands into thetapered valve seat 15, the opening being designated 16, and into thisopening a tube 17 is threaded, forming a continuation of the opening 16.

The valve 18 which closes the seat 15 has a leather washer l9, and thestem 20 of the valve extends up through the opening 16 and tube 17 andis guided in its movement therein by the lugs 16 and 17 on the head andon the tube. The end of the stem is threaded for the nut 21 and this nutholds the spring 22 between itself and the head 13 of the piston.

The operation of th pump will be readily understood, and it will besufficient to say that upon the up-stroke of the piston the air in thecylinder passes through passages 8, chamber 9, tube 17 and opening 16,forcing the valve from its seat, against the tension of the spring 22,and then upon the down-stroke of the piston, the valve is closed, andthe air beneath the piston is compressed and forced through the outlet 3in the cylinder 1.

In its movement the stem 20 of the valve is guided by the lugs 16 and 17and prevented from wabbling, and the valve itself is insured a properand accurate seating in the tapered opening 15. The tension of thespring may be adjusted by turning the nut 21, increasing or reducing thepressure required to move it from its seat, and this adjustment may bereadily accomplished with facility and despatch by unscrewing the headfrom the body and removing the head with its valve, stem and springcomplete, from the body. After adjustment the parts may be quicklyassembled again, and are ready for use.

In this manner, a simple, but compact, ac-

performing the functions of a comparatively perfect pump of thischaracter.

What I claim is The combination in a scribed with the hand pump asdehollow piston body formed with air passages, of a head threaded intothe body an d forming a chamber and a gasket clamped between the headand body,

Copies of this patent may be obtained .for

said head having an open center terminating in a valve seat, a springpressed valve adapted to fit the seat and having a stem projectingthrough said head into the hollow body, and a guide tube for the stemthreaded into the head and projecting into the hollow piston body.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

' JOSEPH F. ROSE.

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